Teenagers take KKK joke too far; no charges filed

1:28 AM,
Nov. 22, 2013

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| Advocate staff report

Reports of members of the Ku Klux Klan gathering in Hanover over the weekend turned out to be nothing more than a group of teenagers who took what they described to police as a joke too far.

According to a Licking County Sheriff's Office incident report, deputies were dispatched to the area of West High Street around 11:30 p.m. Saturday. The caller reported a group of about 15 people in white robes and hoods were walking down the road.

Deputies found four teenage boys on the roadway and more subjects were in the woods, but they ran away from the scene. ...